Spencer Tracy credited as playing...
Arnold Boult
- Arnold Boult: None of you knew Edward. Now he's dead, it's too late. Edward was my son. My only son.
- Arnold Boult: Just because you ride in my motors and eat my biscuits and read my newspapers, doesn't mean that you have to like me. Or, I you, for that matter.
- Arnold Boult: You know, there is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken in its flood, leads on to fortune. Do you know who wrote that?
- Harry Simpkin: No.
- Arnold Boult: Neither do I. But it wasn't a little man.
- Mr. Hanray: You win.
- Arnold Boult: Oh, it isn't a question of victory or defeat, Hanray. It's just that we worked out a solution together.
- Mr. Hanray: Your son needs a sharp lesson.
- Arnold Boult: Have you ever tried thrashing him?
- Mr. Hanray: I have flogged your boy once this term already.
- Arnold Boult: How'd he take it?
- Mr. Hanray: Not very well, I'm afraid. He bit me, in the hand.
- Arnold Boult: [laughs] Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry. What did you do?
- Mr. Hanray: What would you do, Sir Arnold?
- Arnold Boult: I'd have put on a pair of thick gloves and started all over again.
- Harry Simpkin: Someone tipped off the bank inspectors.
- Arnold Boult: Why, Harry, I wouldn't believe you had an enemy in the world.
- Harry Simpkin: Perhaps you are right. Perhaps it was one of my friends who did it.
- Arnold Boult: Larry, my boy, you should get married and have children. It's a great incentive. I suppose being bachelor has advantages too, especially if you're a doctor. Beautiful nurses, beautiful temperatures to take.
- Arnold Boult: Oh, I'm not going to dictate anything. I just wanted to talk. What are your interests in life, Miss Perrin?
- Arnold Boult: What do you do in the evenings, Miss Perrin?
- Eileen Perrin: I go home.
- Arnold Boult: Do you really?
- Eileen Perrin: What do you think happens to me? Do you think I'm covered over with a black, oilskin bag like a typewriter?
- Eileen Perrin: Do you know what the time is?
- Arnold Boult: Oh time. Time. I don't think of time when I'm with you. I'd like to think that we're alone in space.
- Eileen Perrin: This champagne is rather warm.
- Arnold Boult: You have to take the rough with the smooth these days. Here's to us.
- Eileen Perrin: it isn't good for you to have your own way always. I know that and I don't do anything about it. Because I am in love with you. In love with you and not what you might be or ought to be. I'm a gangster's moll, Arnold.
- Arnold Boult: Thank you very much. Here's to our next hold-up.
- Arnold Boult: Have you broken the law?
- Bronton: No. Have you?
- Arnold Boult: Who, me? Not any more than usual.
- [last lines]
- Arnold Boult: Look after yourselves. Because the way things are in the world today, if you don't, nobody else will. Good night.